Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “Beyond Individual-Centred 4E Cognition: Systems Biology and Sympoiesis” by Mads Julian Dengsø & Michael David Kirchhoff. Abstract: I raise the question of whether sympoietic systems, as construed in the target article, can be said to exhibit adaptivity. First, I give an overview of the role of adaptivity in the context of an enactivist conception of life-mind continuity. Subsequently, I reflect on a number of ways in which the notion of adaptivity may or may not be applied to sympoietic systems.